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Has anyone purchased a Dell computer lately
Yooper
Parallel is fast becomeing a thing of the past, they are clow and cumbersome and everyone is making a change to USB.. Yup! you have been mowed under by progress.
Go to Staples and buy the adapter, it will buy you more time.
If this link don't work, go to staples.com and under technology there will be a white box at the top for searching, type Parallel board and it will appear. $39.99
Good Luck
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Yooper
I went back and reread your post. You may buy the USB cable adapter at staples.
You also may uninstall McPhee but you best have an alternative in place if you are going to email..... Trojans, worms and viruses will put you out of business faster than your current problem.
You DO NOT need a new hard drive, what fool told you that? If you needed a hard drive you wouldn't be getting anywhere with the computer it wouldn't even boot up. Damn, some one has hired a moron.
Is the computer you replaced still working? if so you need to transfer some files from the other computer to this one and then your addresses, favorites etc will all be ok.
I go here and get alot of my answers http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx it is a Microsoft Newsgroup and I have posted many questions and there is bound to be someone who will answer you quickly and with the right info. Just be sure to pick a title that best fits your problem and post. Good luck.
To compare what you are trying to do and don't get me wrong, it can be done but with mods.. You are doing an old Johnny Cash routine, you have a new car and you want to replace the head lamps with ones from a 59 Buick and the tail lights from a 56 Caddy and the grill from a DeSoto, yes! you can do it and what I am saying is technology is changing, Industry standards are shifting and DB25s and Parallel ports are becoming obsolte with the newer Firewires and USBs etc etc. Sorry, don't shoot the messenger.
If you want to uninstall anything, go to START PROGRAMS and then find the folder for your program and see if there is an UNINSTALL UTILITY for it and then use it, if not go to START CONTROL PANEL ADD/REMOVE SOFTWARE after a moment or two the list of programs will appear in the white box, be awful careful here, you could easily uninstall something that is required by your comp, so if not sure, don't do it. Anyhow click on the program title and in the bottom right hand corner click on Uninstall/remove and then reboot and continue the process for as many programs as you want to uninstall.
You will need to copy your old Favorites folder over to the New Computer for all of your computer Website addies, and there is other data you can copy to regain your Passwords etc.
Good lUck
I am at work on win 98 but will try to help you the best I can. My XP system is at home.... Everyone has them jerks from India and most everyone gives you your Program recovery files on a different partion of Drive C it usually is Drive E (virtual)
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You said you went to uninstall and McAfee wasn't there. Did you go to START PROGRAMS and search there? It has to be on the computer, I got it with mine and uninstalled it and replaced it with Norton System Works. You may also try going to START PROGRAMS ACCESSORIES and then use WIndows Exploer or My Compurter to search the Directory tree and see if you can find it that way, when you locate the folder, there should be an uninstall utility for McAfee and then just click on it. I have given you three ways to get to it and I am 100% positive one of those ways will do it.
Nothing Bad happens aother than your system is no longer protected against Viruses, Worms and Torjans that can get into via Internet and destroy your files. I really don't know what you mean by control. You can also click on the McAfee icon in the bottom right of your screen, try right clicking and go to OPTIONs. Read the options and if there is anything about monitoring your programs while not connected uncheck that.
I know time is wasting money for you and I have no control over that. You may need to call a Computer geek to come over, pay him a few hundred to get you up and going and have him show you or one of your computer guys how and why he did what he is doing. I don't see any other way. You are henpecking thru the sytem and it sounds as if you have already been given some ill advice and that still hasn't solved your problem.... Go to the Yellow Pages and give a call to someone to come and do it for you. Some one will say right off the bat, that Yes it can be done. If they give you any negative impression, call someone else.
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Roxio CD Creator is for making DVDs or burning CDs, it may olso have Photo suite 4 on it for editing photos and capturing music from Tapes or CDs to your hard drive or for making copies. I think you really need it in your business enviroment. After all maybe a little AC?Dc will cheer everyone up. J/K it is really worthless to you.
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I use my computer a lot and have been with them since 1977. I sold every level of computer from the Tandy Model One and then TRS-Dos to every level of Ms-dos and now every level of Windows. What is annoying is when you go from one version of windows to another many Software titles go by the wayside. Yes! It can cost money to keep up......
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SG
I am on my thrid HP and have had excellent luck.
You can go to hpshopping.com and customize your own Computer. I did and I bought a New Media Center HP in July a M7050Y and I do all you want to do and I am in the process of taking my old VHS Home movies and prerecorded movies and moving them to DVD.
If you need any help, I would be more than happy to take this BIG Head of mine and help you out.
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Yup! you can build your own or buy a locally built one and when you have a graphics card that conflicts with this or that and or this burns out or that does, and the local guy gets sick of trying to teach you about computers and that this is not under warranty because it was the other manufacturers component that created the problem so you will have to call them, and them won't help you because you have it in a hodge podge of this and thats. Nope! I would NEVER build my own or go to local chop shop to do it. I want the warranty.
With HP I have had a problem twice in the last 5 years, one was with a power supply, they shipped me an empty box, I had it in one day and I put my computer in it, less the hard drives and shipped it out, I had itback wiith a new and bigger power supply in three days. Yeah! they have ALL hired out contract support, due to their profit margins being so small. In order to be competive they need to have the price people want to pay.
I have had 3 HPs and each one was Custom built by me on their website and I have not paid less than $2100 for any of them. The last one I got the 19" LCD monitor FREE, a FREE upgrade to 1 gig ram, a FREE upgrade to a 160 GIG Hd which I replaced with a 200 GB. I was able to pick my processor, and all of my add ons, I have a single tuner and a Nividia Graphics card. I bought the warranty with it for 3 years. The first thig I do when I get them, I uninstall al software I will not be using and then I run system checks, defrags, CCleaner to clean it up.
For you guts that have the autodial prblem, that is a XP charteristic and not a Computer maufacturer one. Go to google and type in Computer autodials on start up and go to the system registry and make the edits as well as the advance dial up options.
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KW
You have a above average computer knowledge and you are porbably capable to troubleshoot and diagnose your own problems, most people can not. I can not even begin to tell you how many hundreds of hours I have on the phone trying to solve problems with average people who wanted to save a buck and add this or that or change a mother board or whatever and then when it didn't work as the magazine said it would, ringy dingy Hello.....
It is best IMHO to go to a site where you can have a manufacturer custom build your system the way you want and get a warranty that will cover it all. The manufacturer will only install what is compatable with the other hardware being installed. I prefer that and I have had excellent luck and very little need to call the Dog Meat eating, lipstick in the middle of the forehead support lines.
I have gone to http://www.kellys-korner-xp.com/xp.htm and you can find the auto dial solutions or go to http://support.microsoft.com/newsgroups/default.aspx find a thread that best fits your request or thru General Discussion which has a lot of traffic and post your questions, your solutions are only moments away.
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I wonder how ram will be used to keep the program converter in place and then add the memory for XP and the application and what will the new minium be to operate without freeze ups?
They had a Mac to PC program convertor years ago, this one will be good until Vista comes out and is it compatible with all prior Windows pre XP???? I haven't read anything on it, have heard tidbits here and there.
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IBM hired 1200 programmers overseas. My experience with IBM was EVERYTHING was an EXTRA and you had to pay for what everybody got as included in theirs.
I knew you were referring to Software problems versus Hardware, I buy extended Service Contracts and have had good luck. Yes! the company makes a profit if you don't use it, but then again I paid $300 for a replacement no matter what warranty thru HP and if my Motherboard fried, that would be a bit more than $300, so muy investment as well as someone else's would be used to make mine good again.
I have gone to hpshopping.com and they have a refurbish section, you know where stuff was sent back and replaced and then HP woul dbringit back to New condition... I have bought a cou[ple of Photosmart printers, a Camera, a two scanners that way and they are still working flawlessly and I paid less than 1/3 of their orginial price. One of my Western Digitial 250 gig Hard Drives was purchased the same way thru WD for $89 and that was a year and half ago, it is only used for a backup to my second drive.
There are ways where people can save money and still get decent quality. Just need to take the time and look.
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Some added advice to you all, BACK UP, you NEVER back up too often only NOT ENOUGH.
I have three Hard Drives in my system, but most people should have a minium of two. Use the Primary for Programs and data and the second as backup of all data and Windows with Updates.
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